Star may keep on sinking

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TWO MEN ARE WORKING IN the park. Bob is digging a hole and Brian is filling it back up with earth. A passer-by is intrigued: “Why are you doing that?” she asks. “Jim’s away today and he normally plants the trees,” Brian replies.

There is a point to this joke, aside from the fact that I wanted to make you smile when all we have to talk about seems a bit gloomy. Relegation is loosely based on a meritocracy; it’s the three worst teams who leave the Premiership each season. But they are not necessarily replaced by three teams better